<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. •Deepak Chopra   Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. •Ovid   Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   A heart in love with beauty never grows old. •Turkish Proverb   To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   If afore us were laid together all the pains in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   If afore us were laid together all the pains in Hell... and in Earth -- death and the rest -- and by itself, sin, we would rather choose all that pain than sin. For sin is so vile and so greatly to be hated that it may be likened to no pain that is not sin. To me was shown no harder hell than sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50277]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953   Counter-culture's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953   Counter-culture's glad tidings of revolution by consciousness are neither new nor revolutionary. Christianity has been trying to achieve a revolution by consciousness for two thousand years. Who would deny that Christian consciousness could have changed the world? Yet it was the world that changed Christian consciousness. If everybody adopted a peaceful, loving, generous, noncompetitive lifestyle, we could have something better than counter-culture -- we could have the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48430]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing has become America's tragic theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing has become America's tragic theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What were vices have become the fashion of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51209]]></link><description><![CDATA[What were vices have become the fashion of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29998]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal - a gold one preferably. I think I might dangle it in front of his face or something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sorely disappointed by the congresswoman's decision to proceed with her playboy fund-raiser, ... We have done everything we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38163]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sorely disappointed by the congresswoman's decision to proceed with her playboy fund-raiser, ... We have done everything we can and now we have no alternative but to take action. Loretta Sanchez will not be speaking at the Democratic National Convention next week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17224]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37555]]></link><description><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired me in writing 'Panic,' it was 'North by Northwest,' ... Those are my favorite Hitchcock films -- the ones where ordinary, everyday people are going about their lives, and they take this dramatic left turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do believe that the fire began in an upper story, but it's too early for us to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34394]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do believe that the fire began in an upper story, but it's too early for us to have a cause it's still under investigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is dark! oh quickly string The harp I yet can brook to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48752]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is dark! oh quickly string The harp I yet can brook to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  When Paul speaks [II Cor. 3] of our being ministers of the New Testament, he does not refer to books most of which were not yet written, but to the gospel, which he found in the Scripture he possessed. The Jews could only see "Old Testament" in Moses and the prophets, because they were blind. To the spiritual all Scripture is gospel, or New Testament (the Law being the schoolmaster, bringing us to Christ), but to the natural and self righteous, as we ought to know from experience and observation, all Scripture (gospels and epistles included) is Old Testament, or Covenant of Works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13941]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7336]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an appetite nor restrain lust nor subdue a passion nor cross his covetousness and ambition for the sake of it, and in hope of that eternal life which God that cannot lie hath promised. He that refuses to do the less is not like to do the greater. It is very improbable that a man will die for his religion, when he cannot be persuaded to live according to it. He that cannot take up a resolution to live a saint, hath a demonstration within himself that he is never like to die a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will it be fun? Of course, man. Jack is Jack and we haven't seen him in a while. But there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will it be fun? Of course, man. Jack is Jack and we haven't seen him in a while. But there's one big difference in this clubhouse. You don't catch a whiff of cigar smoke anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57057]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who ask for love in return are coolies demanding wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who ask for love in return are coolies demanding wages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  [May] the Lord lead further and further those who do in earnest want to live the Joshua [i.e., transformed] life. It means a daily dying to self and what self wants; a daily turning to our Master with a "Yes, Lord" to everything, even to what is most against the grain. May He quicken those who have not yet begun to live this life to see what they are missing, before it is too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outreach and recruitment is something we're beginning to work on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Outreach and recruitment is something we're beginning to work on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He holds a lot of promise, and I look forward to him joining us on January 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35072]]></link><description><![CDATA[He holds a lot of promise, and I look forward to him joining us on January 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may as well say, that 's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55958]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may as well say, that 's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 And have the bright immensities received our risen Lord Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 And have the bright immensities received our risen Lord Where light-years frame the Pleiades and point Orion's sword? Do flaming suns his footsteps trace through corridors sublime, The Lord of interstellar space and Conqueror of time? The heaven that hides Him from our sight knows neither near nor far: An altar candle sheds its light as surely as a star; And where His loving people meet to share the gift divine, There stands He with unhurrying feet, and Heaven's splendors shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34750]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning supernatural inspiration or revelation; not considering that all true religion originates from reason, and can not othe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might have to be extended again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29435]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might have to be extended again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The overall strategy over the next five years is to gain control of the border. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The overall strategy over the next five years is to gain control of the border.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harsh reality of the verdict in the Stewart case, we believe, will enable management and the board to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harsh reality of the verdict in the Stewart case, we believe, will enable management and the board to make the necessary difficult strategic decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34049</guid></item></channel></rss>